Example sentences of "[conj] is [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or is it that it does n't seem long ? he continued bitterly , knowing the futility of carping , but being unable to stop it . |
| 2 | Or is it that When the vile or appalling ‘ lies quite close , but can not be assimilated … at the border of my condition as a living being ’ ( Julia Kristeva ) , what is produced is a momentarily heightened sense of one 's own aliveness , teetering on the brink of extinction ? |
| 3 | Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ? |
| 4 | Or is it that the working class has shrunk to a level which means it can never put Labour into power ? |
| 5 | Or is it that she 's like Barbara Hervey ? |
| 6 | Or is it that because of ignorance and haste crucial parts of the foundations have been left out ? |
| 7 | He followed this with the unkindest cut of all : ‘ Or is it that he is afraid I will ask him for money ? ’ |
| 8 | Are individual Japanese so decidedly group orientated by cultural tradition or is it that ‘ in many cases they are loyal to their groups because it pays to be loyal ’ ( Befu 1977 p. 87 ) ? |
| 9 | Or is it that our eyes are ready for a review of his masterly clash of print , texture and colour ? |
| 10 | When you saw what a disaster you had caused , you could of started again and taken some time , oh sorry I forgot that 's not godlike , you probably did n't want to know or is it that you enjoy what you made , a sort of entertainment , better than Home and Away , watching wars and diseases and things . |
| 11 | ‘ Or is it that you think so highly of her that you ca n't bring yourself to cast her pearls before swine ? |
| 12 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 13 | Or is it that you want him to ? ’ |
| 14 | Has the desire been bred in us or is it that there are so many and so easily available today that they are no longer considered of value ? ) |
| 15 | Or is it that thy hour is not yet come ? |
| 16 | Or is it that I 've lost my sense of balance ? |
| 17 | Or is it that your other relationships keep proving unsatisfactory , driving you back to him ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Or is it that you 're immune ? ’ he said slowly . |
| 19 | Or is it that there are none so blind as those who will not see ? |
| 20 | ‘ Or is it that you yourself wish to withdraw from the commitment ? ’ |
| 21 | Or is it that inside all organizations there are , continuously , small discoveries to be made in order to improve what is being done — and that schools do not differ from other organizations ? |
| 22 | Or is it that a book still has some special appeal in this electronic age ? |
| 23 | Or is it that your feelings suddenly alter ? |
| 24 | Or is it that they are being manipulated by people in the soft wood trade … to tarnish the good name of tropical hard wood ? |
| 25 | Are your memories so short over there , or is it that you have deliberately forgotten or ignored the protests of that time . |
| 26 | ‘ Or is it that you play the Ice Queen only to capture a man 's interest ? ’ |
| 27 | But it needs to be borne in mind , before we embark on the various ways of doing this , that it is by no means a universally accepted need nor is it that every bereaved person with whom we come in contact will need ‘ help ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Secondly , timing is crucial and is something that you simply can not work on alone . |
| 29 | Collecting all the raw material to create the final page or document is only the beginning of the desktop publishing process and is something that would have to have been done whatever system was being used . |
| 30 | But you see what Freud , what Freud fastens on there and is something that only a psychoanalyst could do , is , is that there 's a discrepancy in the story . |